Australian History
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The Golden Age

A History of the Colony of Victoria 1851-1861

Geoffrey Serle

Outstanding account of a decade whose highlights included separation from New South Wales and the Eureka Stockade.

Opinion

'a work of distinction, which combines academic scholarship with vivid, dramatic narrative'
The Advocate

'Despite being written almost forty years ago, Geoffrey Serle's The Golden Age remains the benchmark history of Victoria during the alluvial gold rushes of the 1850s.' (Keir Reeves, November 2002)

About this Title

An outstanding account of a decade whose highlights included separation from New South Wales, the gold rushes, the Eureka Stockade, the establishment of parliamentary government, and the attempts to 'unlock the land'.

About the Author

Geoffrey Serle is one of Australia's most distinguished historians. He was Victorian Rhodes Scholar in 1947 and completed his doctorate at Oxford in 1950. After teaching in the History Department at the University of Melbourne and editing Historical Studies from 1955 to 1963, Dr Serle became Reader in History at Monash University and later Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University where he was co-General Editor of volumes 7-10 and General Editor of volume 11 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Among his published works are The Rush to be Rich, John Monash and Robin Boyd.

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